Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:25:33 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sam & Marcy Freiberg Subject: Re: Interesting Am. Goldfinch behavior MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul: I have a small white plastic cup directly above my hanging hummingbird feeder which I fill with water to keep ants from getting to the sugarwater. My resident goldfinches consider it their private water reserve and love to land on the plastic string above the cup and then move down and dip their bill into the cup for a sip of water. This occurs several times throughout the day. Sam Freiberg Chevy Chase, MD 20815 sammarcy@erols.com Paul Woodward wrote: > 2 September 2002 > Yesterday when I was at Hughes Hollow I watched a small group of > goldfinhes feeding in a way I don't remember seeing before. They were in a > dead bush over a duckweed covered stream by the impoundments. They were > extending their bodies downward and picking something(possibly the duckweed) > off the floating vegetation. I have seen Swamp Sparrows feeding this way, > but I don't remember goldfinches doing it. > > Paul Woodward > Fairfax City, VA 22032 > grackling@worldnet.att.net > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================